No religious texts.Vancouver Vancouver, city, Canada Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. -- About 6800 students and their parents involved in a government-organized distance education program have been denied the use of religious texts. As students registered in public schools, the home-schooled a. 1. Receiving or having received formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school. The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home; as, home-schooled children are forbidden the use of religious texts. B.C. Unity Party leader, Chris CHRIS Chemical Hazards Response Information System (US DoD) CHRIS California Historical Resources Information System CHRIS Computerized Human Resources Information System CHRIS Command Human Resources Intelligence System Delaney De·la·ney , Shelagh Born 1930. British playwright best known for A Taste of Honey (1958). , called on the government to support the parents' constitutional rights in educating their children in their own homes. The government now permits some of the parents to register with independent schools where religious texts are allowed (LifeSiteNews, May 5, 2004). |
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